Easy Week and a shoe experiment

I'd planned to make this a pretty easy week training-wise. No particularly hard sessions. Not worrying too much about mileage...

My Inov-8 f-lite 230's are coming towards the end of their useful running life, and having reached 603 miles they have done themselves proud. I'll get a little more out of them before I wear trough the outsole, but I doubt that I'll get to 700 miles - so less than a week of running left in them!

In the absence of a promised new pair of f-lite 230's from Inov-8, I ordered a Puma Salohs to try. It's a shoe that a number of people who have a similar running style to me wear, and I thought that this would be an ideal opportunity to try them out.
They are very comfortable - the midsole and outsole are made of denser materials than the f-lite, and the 'feel' on the ground is slightly less 'direct'

The decent test I gave them was on a 9 mile run that I did with Lorna, into which I injected 3 Tempo miles - at 6:13 - 5:53 and 5:50 min/mile. It's a shoe that comes into it's own at faster paces, although the harder compound rubber outsole is not as grippy on damp pavements as to be ideal.
It's a shoe that I'll road-test properly, as I'm often asked for advice with regard to shoes and the differences between them!!

The remainder of the weeks' training was all spent running with Lorna - and so it was with some surspise that I found that I'd racked up 57 miles. I really didn't notice the distance, which I'm guessing has to be a good sign.
Just the one day where I didn't especially enjoy running, all the rest were fabulous

57.24 miles
One Intervals-ish session that was 9.4 miles long
47.84 miles of aerobic running.

Quite a pleasing result for what was planned as an easy week and felt like an easy week!!

More of the same next week I think.

Lorna and I had a chat the other night and agreed that introducing some speed and harder stuff through December in the build up to a targetted faster 'raced' marathon in February made a great deal of sense, and then maintain that speed while building up the back to back long days in the run in to May!

Sounds like a plan!!